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UGLY: But wait, there's more. Reds outfielder Reggie Sanders has just been given a justly-deserved five-day suspension for charging the mound after being hit by a pitch of the Expos' Pedro Martinez...
...bright, brisk spring afternoon last week, Bill Clinton threw out the first ball at the Cleveland Indians' opening-day game. But his pitch, high and over the plate, was more than the usual springtime rite. The President helped kick off the baseball season in Jacobs Field, a sleek, brand-new, $169 million stadium, a large chunk of which was financed by a 4.5 cents-a-pack local tax on cigarettes. Yet no one, no matter where they are sitting, is permitted to smoke in the open-air stands...
After the Clintons ended their vacation by pitching ceremonial baseballs on the opening day of the season -- he in Cleveland, Ohio, she in Chicago -- the President took to the road to pitch his health-care reform proposal. At one televised town meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina, Mr. Clinton took some heavy hits from questioners who challenged him on foreign policy and Whitewater. "Let me be President in 1994 while somebody else worries about what happened in 1979," an irritated Clinton responded...
Perhaps we are to assume that Collard believes Jean's quotation at the beginning of the film, "Only violence can put an end to man's ways," because we get to see plenty of violence-domestic, sexual and racial. The film attempts to achieve a fervent pitch of turbulent emotion, but is incapable to sustaining it. The goal here seems to be to achieve the numbing qualities of a "Reservoir Dogs" but ends without delving deeply enough below the emotional skin to make the audience empathize with any of the characters...
...take the confidence a typicalundergraduate has, and you pitch it up even moreto a truly high level of self-confidence, that wasMark," Alter says. "But it was leavened with asense of humor and the ability to not take himselftoo seriously...